A Million Little Pieces

dissention · #1 01-26-2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Just a heads up, Frey will be on Oprah this afternoon. It should be interesting.

It's going to be him, Oprah, and his publisher. Expect nothing but damage control and spin.

macfanken · #2 01-26-2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

It's going to be him, Oprah, and his publisher. Expect nothing but damage control and spin.

I hear Oprah regrets supporting him on Larry King recently and is not very happy... sounds like Oprah will be doing damage control for Oprah... and feeding him to the sharks.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #3 01-26-2006, 02:26 PM

CALLING RANDY...

I know you don't post often, but I thought you should ring in here! You DO work in books dear...

RavenOfRhiannon · #4 01-26-2006, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

CALLING RANDY...

I know you don't post often, but I thought you should ring in here! You DO work in books dear...

If you think the press and the reaction has been bad in public, you should hear the goings on backstage in the publishing world. Everything from I told you so to intense fear that Oprah will discontinue her book club.
Expect to see memoirs pulled from release lists as the fact checkers give them a once over one last time

Brwn_eyes0511 · #5 01-26-2006, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by RavenOfRhiannon

If you think the press and the reaction has been bad in public, you should hear the goings on backstage in the publishing world. Everything from I told you so to intense fear that Oprah will discontinue her book club.
Expect to see memoirs pulled from release lists as the fact checkers give them a once over one last time

Wow Randy, I had no idea that things were THAT bad. At least not until I watched Oprah today...good LORD! It's pretty serious **** this man has gotten himself into...I do feel a little sorry for him.

(HEAR THAT KEN!!! I SAID SORRY!!!

)

dissention · #6 01-26-2006, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

I do feel a little sorry for him.

Why? He's the one who lied to everyone.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #7 01-26-2006, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Why? He's the one who lied to everyone.

I was just trying to show that I do have a little compassion!!!

but a large hunk of me wants the fool to fall flat on his face!!!!! HARD!

dissention · #8 01-26-2006, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

I hear Oprah regrets supporting him on Larry King recently and is not very happy... sounds like Oprah will be doing damage control for Oprah... and feeding him to the sharks.

Really? Where did you hear that? I may tune in after all.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #9 01-26-2006, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Really? Where did you hear that? I may tune in after all.

ummmmmmmm........

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Originally Posted by macfanken

on Larry King recently

dissention · #10 01-26-2006, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

ummmmmmmm........

Ummmmmmm...

"Oprah regrets supporting him on Larry King recently..."

He's talking about when she called in to Larry King to support him, bub.

Brwn_eyes0511 · #11 01-26-2006, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Ummmmmmm...

"Oprah regrets supporting him on Larry King recently..."

He's talking about when she called in to Larry King to support him, bub.

Ohhh my mistake. I read it wrong..oopsy!

macfanken · #12 01-26-2006, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Really? Where did you hear that? I may tune in after all.

i just saw something on msnbc... saying OPRAH is *not* happy. They showed a little clip... she looked a little pissed.

gldstwmn · #13 01-26-2006, 02:40 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html

Oprah to author: 'I really feel duped'
James Frey upbraided by talk show host

Thursday, January 26, 2006; Posted: 11:57 a.m. EST (16:57 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey challenged author James Frey over his disputed memoir, asking him on a live telecast of her show Thursday to explain why he "felt the need to lie."

"It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped ... but more importantly I feel that you betrayed millions of readers," Winfrey said to Frey, who wrote the hugely popular "A Million Little Pieces."

Frey's story of substance abuse and recovery became one of the best-selling books of 2005 after Winfrey named it to her book club last fall, with countless addicts citing it as inspiration. It was originally published in 2003.

The memoir began to unravel earlier this month when an investigative piece on The Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com) challenged some of the facts in the book, including Frey's assertion that he once spent three months in prison.

Frey, 36, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" show after The Smoking Gun story appeared, and Winfrey phoned in her support for him and for the book, calling the allegations against Frey "much ado about nothing."

"What is relevant is that he was a drug addict ... and stepped out of that history to be the man he is today and to take that message to save other people and allow them to save themselves," Winfrey said in the surprise call two weeks ago.

But Winfrey, who has been widely criticized, even by e-mailers on her Web site, for her apparent indifference to the controversy, said Thursday that she regretted making that call.

"I left the impression that the truth is not important," she said.

Frey acknowledged to King that he had embellished parts of the book, and he told Winfrey Thursday that the same demons that fueled his addictions caused him to mischaracterize himself.

"I made a mistake," Frey told Winfrey on Thursday.

Frey's acknowledgments have not hurt sales so far, with both "A Million Little Pieces" and its sequel, "My Friend Leonard," high on best seller lists. His publisher, Doubleday, said last week that Frey was writing a brief author's note for future editions of "A Million Little Pieces."